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Commonly known as Bill C-10, the bill was passed in the House of Commons on June 22, 2021, but failed to pass the Senate before Parliament was dissolved for a federal election. It was reintroduced with amendments as the Online Streaming Act during the first session of the 44th Canadian Parliament in February 2022, passed in the House of Commons ...
On March 8, 2022, the party's Leadership Election Organizing Committee released the Rules and Procedures for the 2022 Leadership document. [43] As in the previous two leadership elections, the vote was held under instant-runoff voting in which each electoral district was given 100 points, distributed according to the weight of a candidate's ...
Bill C-11 is any of several articles of legislation introduced into the House of Commons of Canada, including: Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , introduced in 2001 to the first session of the 37th Parliament
The Online News Act (French: Loi sur les nouvelles en ligne), known commonly as Bill C-18, is a Canadian federal statute.Introduced in the 44th Canadian Parliament, passed by the Senate on June 15, 2023, and receiving royal assent on June 22, 2023, the act will implement a framework under which digital news intermediaries (including search engines and social networking services) that hold an ...
The demolition of the Corridart exhibit in Montreal by former mayor Jean Drapeau on the 13 June 1976, two days before the commencement of the Montreal Olympic Games, was considered an act of censorship by the artists involved and resulted in a lengthy court trial wherein the artistic and aesthetic merit of the project was questioned.
Richard Stallman joins the protest by promoting a political cartoon criticizing Bill C-11 on the blog of fellow copyright reform advocate Michael Geist. When the Act was introduced, it was criticized for "mirroring the previous bill" and bringing back anti-circumvention laws unchanged.
Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; however, in practice the Charter permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limits censoring speech. Hate speech, obscenity, and defamation are common categories of restricted speech in Canada.
Some critics have also argued that the intent of the bill was to allow a regulatory framework for the removal of copyright infringing content. [14] The bill was passed by the House of Commons, but was not passed by the Senate before Parliament was dissolved. The bill was reintroduced in February 2022 as Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act.